Monday, 10 January 2011

Yesterday it was confirmed that two pandas, Tian Tian and Yangguang, will be transferred from China to Edinburgh Zoo. Liu Xiaoming, the Chinese ambassador in London, described this as a gift that will "bring our two people closer together".
But chari...

The Coalition agreement back in May was clear that robust action would be taken over the "unacceptable" rewards for Britain's bailed-out bankers. Yet David Cameron yesterday warned against "banker bashing" and making lenders the "scapegoats" for the ...

Ed Miliband, Labour's leader, defended Mr Johnson at a press conference yesterday. But over the weekend he will have again wondered whether he chose the wrong man. Mr Johnson was selected as shadow Chancellor for two reasons, neither of which relate ...

In my view, a failure to grab opportunities and to build on initiatives led to the Irish peace process taking much longer to make progress than it should have. At times, arguments over words and their interpretation were elevated to pre-conditions wh...

If the arrogant and unelected Prince Charles is behind this, then by doing so he has probably helped advance the cause of republicanism quite considerably.
On the other hand we have Mr Cameron's government (and the Liberal Democrats in particular) no...

Since Barack Obama entered the White House two years ago, the American right has adopted partisan rhetoric of the most reckless kind. A year ago, Sharron Angle, the right-wing Tea Party favourite and Nevada's Republican Senate nominee, warned that "i...

Should we also get over and move on from other unacceptable and immoral aspects of our society – just say "Ah well, so be it" and absorb them as the norm? Where there are social outrages that we have the power to address, we should certainly not "mov...

I have sympathy for the sisters if this is the case. They must feel that the memory of their dead mother has been traduced. Instead of the sensible-skirt-wearing woman they remember selflessly looking after Nigel's widowed father, this scheming, loud...

That is the gap in the market that the new site Quora hopes to fill. This peer-review question and answer network, set up by two former Facebook employees, is different from existing online inquiry sites because it tears the veil of anonymity from th...

Rock's showing in last year's singles charts has less to do with musical trends than with the radically changed nature of that chart, since new eligibility rules in 2006 led to the dominance of cheap digital downloads. This has made the singles chart...

Some have suggested that it is more like the vessel of a James Bond villain than that of an environmental protest organisation. But why should the bad guys have all the best kit? If Rainbow Warrior III is going to lead new protests against illegal lo...

The reference to Liverpool's centre-forward, Ian St John, displayed three arteries of the city's heart – football, humour and religion. And though, as in most English cities, religion is in decline, the return of Kenny Dalglish to the managership of ...

In other words, you won't be completely isolated from any sounds, which would be terrifying. But you will lose the high-pitched whining sound (unless your dentist has that kind of voice, in which case you're on your own).The research team have noted ...